https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2008-10711-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Recent developments in ion detection techniques for Penning trap mass spectrometry at TRIGA-TRAP
1
Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
3
Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
4
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, D-64291, Darmstadt, Germany
5
Institut für Kernchemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
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Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 6, D-17489, Greifswald, Germany
* e-mail: ketela@uni-mainz.de
Received:
10
September
2008
Revised:
6
December
2008
Accepted:
19
December
2008
Published online:
3
February
2009
The highest precision in the determination of nuclear and atomic masses can be achieved by Penning trap mass spectrometry. The mass value is obtained through a measurement of the cyclotron frequency of the stored charged particle. Two different approaches are used at the Penning trap mass spectrometer TRIGA-TRAP for the mass determination: the destructive Time-Of-Flight Ion Cyclotron Resonance (TOF-ICR) technique and the non-destructive Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) method. New developments for both techniques are described, which will improve the detection efficiency and the suppression of contaminations in the case of TOF-ICR. The FT-ICR detection systems will allow for the investigation of an incoming ion bunch from a radioactive-beam facility on the one hand, and for the detection of a single singly charged ion in the Penning trap on the other hand.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009
